Use your textbook to answer the following questions. You are not required to respond in essay format. You may use short-answer responses, including lists, to answer these questions.

1.What are the characteristics of intimate relationships? What are behavioral interdependence, need fulfillment, emotional attachment, and emotional availability? Why is each important in relationship development?

The characteristics are behavioral interdependence, need fulfillment, emotional attachment, and emotional availability. Behavioral interdependence is the mutual impact that people have on each other as their lives and daily activities intertwine. Need fulfillment is the psychological need for intimacy, social integration, nurturance, assistance, and affirmation. Emotional attachments are feelings of love, and emotional availability is the ability to give and receive from others emotionally without fear of being hurt or rejected. All of these coincide with being in a healthy relationship. You have to be able to listen and respond when somebody expresses feelings, and you have to be ready to be able to make that happen. Everybody wants to be wanted, and feel like there is somebody out there for them, and to just generally be happy with a significant other, and wants to feel like they are needed. Making sure you available emotionally available to accept and return those feelings, and being able to be open with somebody is crucial to having a healthy relationship.

2.What problems might form barriers to intimacy? What actions can you take to reduce or remove these barriers?

Lack of personal identity, emotional immaturity, and a poorly developed sense of responsibility, fear of being hurt, low self esteem, and mishandled hostility. Keeping a open line of communication between your partner and yourself can help. Being able to identify when there is a problem, and being...

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Appendix F
Healthy InterpersonalRelationshipsWorksheet
Use your textbook to answer the following questions. You are not required to respond in essay format. You may use short-answer responses, including lists, to answer these questions.
1. What are the characteristics of intimate relationships? What are behavioral interdependence, need fulfillment, emotional attachment, and emotional availability? Why is each important in relationship development?
Behavioral interdependence- The impact we have on each other, the way we treat each other determines how we will be treated.
Need fulfillment- Plays a role in our psychological, social, spiritual, and physical health
Intimacy- sharing feelings with each other freely
Social integration- sharing worries and concerns with each other
Nurturance- having someone to take care of us and that we can take care of
Assistance- having help in times of need
Affirmation- reassuring us of our worth
Emotional attachment- feelings of love, there are many different levels of emotional attachments such as spirituality can play a big part in emotional attachment.
Emotional availability- being able to give and receive without the fear of being hurt
2. What problems might form barriers to intimacy? What actions can you take to reduce or remove these barriers?
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...Appendix F
Healthy InterpersonalRelationshipsWorksheet
Use your textbook to answer the following questions. You are not required to respond in essay format. You may use short-answer responses, including lists, to answer these questions.
1. What are the characteristics of intimate relationships? What are behavioral interdependence, need fulfillment, emotional attachment, and emotional availability? Why is each important inrelationship development?
• Behavioral interdependence is the mutual impact people have on each other in their daily lives and is important because one person may feel a great void if the other person is gone.
• Need fulfillment is the psychological needs that are fulfilled by intimate relationships. The needs fulfilled are intimacy, social integration, nurturance, assistance, and affirmation. It is important in relationship development because they can help both parties to come away with feelings of being validated.
• Emotional attachments are feelings of love in an intimate relationship. It is important in relationship development because it helps each individual gain insight into each others lives.
• Emotional availability is the ability to give and receive from other emotionally without the fear of rejection or being hurt. It is important in relationship development because without being...

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